The Author, Sabine Hossenfelder, is a German theoretical physicist, author, musician and YouTuber. She is best known among casual students of physics as the Creative Director of the YouTube channel “Science without the gobbledygook”.
Sabine Hossenfelder offers a radical and brand-new exploration of the limits and power of scientific explanation to address the most pressing existential questions on what we know in physics, what we don't know and how mathematics can lead us towards the right answers, but also, frequently, to the wrong ones.
The authors tries to show us the limits of our current knowledge using cognizant arguments and examples to make her case. We might not agree, but it is difficult to find fault with her reasoning. Sabine has a YouTube channel that features many of the topics that are discussed in her book.
1- Does the Past Still Exist?
2- How did the Universe Begin?
3. Why Doesn't Anyone Ever Get Younger?
4. Are You Just a Bag of Atoms?
5. Do Copies of Us Exist?
6. Has Physics Ruled Out Free Will?
7. Was the Universe Made for Us?
8. Does the Universe Think?
9. Are Humans Predictable?
10. Epilogue and Interviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sabine-hossenfelder/existential-physics/
Core Book: Existential Physics, A Scientist's Guide to Life Biggest Questions, Sabine Hossenfelder, Viking , 2022.
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder
https://www.livescience.com/65819-how-did-the-universe-begin.html
https://thesciencebehindit.org/how-did-the-universe-begin-how-will-it-end/
https://www.livescience.com/42839-the-universe-is-math.html
https://novoslabs.com/reversing-aging-how-to-reverse-aging/
https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/can-science-stop-aging-the-facts-on-age-reversal-technology/
https://www.sciencealert.com/99-9999999-of-your-body-is-empty-space
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-is-the-multiverse
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-quantum-mechanics-rule-out-free-will/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/finding-free-will/
https://physicsworld.com/a/why-free-will-is-beyond-physics/
https://mindmatters.ai/2018/11/human-consciousness-may-not-be-computable/
https://aeon.co/essays/just-a-recent-blip-in-the-cosmos-are-humans-insignificant
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340547/
https://time.com/6208174/maybe-the-universe-thinks/
https://www.space.com/is-the-universe-conscious
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/was-our-universe-created-in-a-laboratory/
https://btrmt.org/articles/predicting-human-behaviour
https://cos.northeastern.edu/news/human-behavior-is-93-predictable-research-shows/ https://openstax.org/books/introduction-political-science/pages/2-3-human-behavior-is-partially-predictable
These references are in addition to those found in the appendix.